Malignant disease

9 Malignant disease

Questions

What is the meaning of ‘opsoclonus’ and does it always indicate malignancy?

Does a greatly elevated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) denote malignancy?

Does a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) exclude malignancy in a patient complaining of feeling easily fatigued?

Why is folic acid supplementation given just after the day of methotrexate administration? Can we give them simultaneously on the same day?

Is hydroxyurea useful in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia?

What is the treatment of choice of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma? Is the eradication of Helicobacter pylori enough? Does the positivity of CD2 rule out MALT lymphoma?

Stage IIE Hodgkin’s lymphoma is the ‘involvement of one or more lymph node regions plus an extralymphatic site’ and that stage IV is the ‘involvement of one or more extralymphatic organs with or without lymph node involvement’. What is the difference? Is ‘site’ different from ‘organ’ and, if so, what is ‘site’?

1. What is Hodgkin’s lymphoma?

2. What is the difference between Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma?

Why is serum calcium elevated in patients suffering from lymphoma?

In a patient with suspected multiple myeloma, with pains in the back ribs, is the skull still the most sensitive site to observe bony lesions?

Please explain why the incidence of ovarian cancer (surface epithelial type)/carcinoma is low in women who take the oral contraceptive pill and who have undergone tubal ligation, compared with the general population?

What is the treatment of Kaposi’s sarcoma?

How effective is a paracetamol and codeine phosphate combination in cancer pain therapy and ordinary pain therapy, and what is the difference in using them in cancer pain therapy?

What is meant by co-analgesic drugs in palliative care?

Is trastuzumab useful in all patients with metastatic breast cancer?

I have heard that Imatinib is useful in stromal cell tumours. Can you explain the mechanism?

Does monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS) progress to multiple myeloma?

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Dec 4, 2016 | Posted by admin in GENERAL & FAMILY MEDICINE | Comments Off

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